The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1887-03-31

YorkvillC, Ill, was burned recently. Tn6
fire started in the roof from a defective
fiue. All the records " ere saved, the prIs.
ouers removed from the Jail in safety and
no person was injured in the operation.
EVERY few weeks the country Is informed
that the Tongue River Indians, Of Montana,
are starving to death. A recent dispatch
from Agent Upshaw was TO the effect that
no Indians under that agency have starved
to death, and that they are drawing their
customary ratiOns.
Ir was reported that SIX persons were
captured in St Petersburg one day re-
Gently in connection with the plot to as
sassinate the Gar and hanged the next
dag. DeGaieff, the man who murdered
Lieutenant Colonel Sudeilin, the Russian
chief of police, three years ago, and who
was suspected OF having planned the plot
against the Cars life, was said 20 have
been one of the SIX.
AT the passenger meeting Of the Central
Traffic Association at Chicago recently con.
siderable ll-fceling was developed over the
refusal of the Chicago q Grand Trunk road
to agree to the abrogation Of second class
rates. The abolishment OF commissions was
also discussed and a report made to the
managers that it was not feasible, as sew
era! of the lines refused TO agree to the re
| form.
THE demands of the dissatisfied employees
of the North Chicago rolling mills have
been conceded almost in their entirety.
THE liabilities of the suspended firm OF
James and John Hunter, of Philadelphia,
are reported to amount to S5O),O0O.
LETTERS containing money, drafts, etc.
| to the value of Sl250O0 were stolen few
days ago from an Astrachan (Russia) post
| I,,,, hp 1,,ry nd
passage to the building and entered it by
cutting through the floor.
| AT Methodist Episcopal donation party,
! held in "A school house at Stittville, n. Y,
recently the floor gave way and ten OF
twelve persons were severely injured be-
| ing bruised, burned and scalded and sus.
| tanning fractures Of the limbs
THERE are now 217, l37 applications fol
| pensions before the Pension Bureau. They
are pouring in at the rate of 5000 per week.
PAT GUNNAN and Mat Turncy, boys and
| stoWaways, were found the other day in
the hold of the steamer Kansas at Boston,
| fourteen days from LlvepOol. The matches
were fastened down and covered with
freight. They were without food and drink
and were in critical condition when res.
cued.
AN extra session OF the Missouri Legisla.
ture has been called for May IL.
| JACKSON MARION was hanged at Beatrice,
Neb, on the 25th, for the murder Of John
| Cameron in 1872.
a STRIKE of cotton handlers at New Or.
leans on the 25th involved 10000 men in
various branches of the trade.
TIE missing steamer Scotia reached
Long Island on the 25th and was run
ashore, her machinery having given out.
! THE coal managers at New York recently
! decided to restrict the production of anthra
cite for the month of April to ., 80, 600 tons.
AT Viewer Neustadt Lower Austria, a
powder mill exploded the other day, blow
ing three soldiers to atoms. The explosion
caused great scare in the surrounding
country, the people believing an earthquake
| had occurred.
WEED q Co.'S mill at Binghamton, N. Y,
was burned recently. Loss, $4,000.
| BY collision on a heavy grade near Lee
! tOnia, o., the other morning, two cars of an
| express tram were wrecked and the en-
| gincer killed and six persons injured. An
| attempt to repair an air brake was the
| cause.
A DISPATCH to the Boston Chamber of
Commerce reported that the yacht Daunt-
less had won the ocean race, having arrived
off Roche's point on the 35sh. She was a
little over thirteen days on the passage.
THE jury IN the breach of promise case Of
Mrs. Harriet A. Moore against Moses
Hopkins, the wellknown millionaire, which
was recently on trial at Redwood City,
Cal, returned a verdict for $4,000 in favor
of the plaintiff. The suit was for S35l0O0.
BUSINESS failures Dun's rcporD for seven
days ended March "a numbered for the
United States 2lS, for Canada Al; total, 259
against 230 the previous week, and 221 for
| the corresponding week Of last year.